Top ten emulators to use on the PSVita & PSTV

With the release of HENkaku, we have a lot of options when it comes to using emulators on the Vita & PSTV. Instead of just being able to use old ePSP emulators we now are able to use native emulators, that can utilize a more of the system’s power. Now some of the native emulators are still getting tweaked like RetroArch for example as it gets nightly updates all the time.psvita-emulators

I found that using both types of emulators was the best way to experience playing retro games on the Vita. For example ePSP Mame can’t play half the games RetroArch Mame could play or you’d like to play on the PSTV with four players.neogeo-on-pstv This is where some of the native emulators really come in hand but then there are a few systems that haven’t made it there yet like SegaCD.

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Now this where some of the old epsp emulators come in hand and since we can still use pboot bubble it makes using epsp emulators just as easy to use.

Here a list of my go to emulators I like to use on the PSVita and PSTV.

ePSP: NesterJ

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RetroArch NES emulators work just as good as NesterJ but for me, I find NesterJ does a good job and doesn’t need HENkaku to run but you will need VHBL to run it or you need to use the pboot bubble.

ePSP: Masterboy

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Masterboy simply does a great job of emulating the Gameboy & Gameboy color games.

ePSP: TG16/PCE

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PCE or Turbo Grafx 16 is another one of those emulators that just work fine in ePSP without any problems.

ePSP: gPSP

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Now with GBA emulators its hard to say which is better to use as gPSP works but has issues with some roms and even game save problems, which can be fixed easily. Where mGBA the native emulator or even RetroArch port of gpsp can work better with some roms but for me, I find it easier to just use old ePSP GBA emulator.

ePSP: Picodrive

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Picodrive for ePSP is another solid emulator as it can do Sega Master system, Sega Genesis, Sega32x, and even Sega CD games without any problems in epsp

You can find out how to get VHBL on the vita here.

You can also download epsp emulators here or you can get the emulator bubbles here.

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SNES9X from RetroArch

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Now this is where you can see native emulators utilize the systems power as a lot of SNES games run almost perfect compared to epsp SNES emulator.

With these last four emulators Mame, CPS1, CPS2 & NeoGeo, it can be quite hard to find a good build from RetroArch as where some builds can make some games compatible or can do the complete opposite.

Mame 2003 from Retroarch

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For Mame, it’s still a guessing game when it comes to knowing what games will work and what won’t but I can say that Mame from Retroarch can play a hell of a lot more games then the ePSP Mame could.

CPS1 & CPS2 from RetroArch work’s quite well now and has a high compatibility rate with quite a with roms.

NeoGeo from RetroArch has a better compatibility rate with roms and you don’t have to make those cache files. Unlike NeoGeo on ePSP as those cache files can take up quite a bit of space on your memory card.

You can download the latest builds of RetroArch here.

 

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12 comments

  1. is there a .vpk file for the epsp emu or link ? thanks for the list 😀

  2. It’s weird, when I look for my name/neogeo Roms, it doesn’t show them even when I’m looking in the correct folder. Am I using RetroArch wrong?

  3. Hello man. I have finished almost the circle of Ps vita for the bubbles, exploits and downloading best ps vita games. 3 Questions please :

    1) What about the Daedalus/Nitendo 64 in that there are some roms stucks like Pokemon Stadium? Is there any update comimg with perfectly like really emulator/ N64 works?

    2) I found a few days the bubble bokkr vita and i just imstalled to read some pdf but for some reason they doesnt seem if you press to open folder. In my PSP, works super when i downloaded some years ago, is this happening to only me or also yours ?

    Last question please but irrelevant …
    3) Do you know why i cannot play Virtua Tennis Ps Vita by Ps Store?

    Thanks man and nice short text ?

  4. Somebody knows if snes retroarch runs mario rpg? I cant play this game runs very very slow

  5. Never used it, can it run in usermode with VHBL only or is it like some emu where it needs a kexploit?

  6. Hey hackinformer,
    I recently came across this website xxxxxxxx is this legit? Because the download does not work for me..